Today card is a classic dedicated to sophisticated ladies.Together with two elagant stamps by Impronte d'Autore (the arlequin background and the sentiment), this birthday cake (Wiff of joy) is fit to the purpouse.

The pleasant surprise is that if you use the Impress pad on a non-porous surfice, it doesn't dry very fast, like it usually does; so, you have time to add the embossing powder. The clear powder gives me a precise relif, lighter than the original colour of the ink pad (I used Chocolate).

Crisis. That's what I feltI when my German friend asked me to design condolence cards.Oh my god! I thought, what can I do now?I took a look on the web and I found a few samples that were or all too lugubrious or not appropriate (by the way, the phrase 'with simpathy' can cause real embarassment to any Italian who wants to write to an english speaking friend. Here it does mean somenthing good. It is a cheerful expression commonly used to end a friendly letter. It has nothing to do with mourning).In the end, I chose a simple design, suitable also for classical occasions, like a wedding, or the birthday of an austere friend...

It simply is a half heart that I crocheted for Mother's day. I don't really know what it is good for, but I liked it at once when I saw it on Mypicot web site (from where you can download the pdf).
The instructions are in english, but you can easily find the grafic scheme as well.